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Overeducation at a glance. Determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
allowing us measuring among others the quality of education from high school. This wealth of information is a condition to … standards. Ceteris paribus the parents of the mismatched have lower educational levels according to school tracking. Most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608917
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Why so slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641603
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Getting it right. Youth employment policy within the EU
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
, especially in the peripheral countries drastic reforms of the school-to-work transition regimes are needed, including not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011643129
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Stuck at a crossroads? The duration of the Italian school-to-work transition
Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2020
survival models. Findings – The average duration of the school-to-work transition for young people aged 18–34 years was 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290484
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Why do Parents Underinvest in their Children's Education? Evidence from China
Wang, Jiyuan; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2022
In this paper we study whether the presence of binding liquidity constraints and the existence of fixed costs can explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801012
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Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2018
in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918294
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A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017
completed primary school, adult literacy program participation is associated with a much lower probability of experiencing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621178
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Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education by three years as an instrument. This results in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985886
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What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?
Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; De Couck, … - 2019
Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016403
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Delayed graduation and university dropout: A review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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